In the summer of 1996, Congress voted to increase the federal minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 per hour. On August 20, 1996, President Clinton signed the legislation, which implemented the increase in two stages: a $0.50 per hour increase on October 1, 1996, followed by a $0.40 increase on September 1, 1997. Supporters argued that the bill would raise the earnings of millions of low-wage worker...

In this paper we present a new unsupervised approach, “Attraction to Topics” – A2T , for the detection of argumentative units, a sub-task of argument mining. Motivated by the importance of topic identification in manual annotation, we examine whether topic modeling can be used for performing unsupervised detection of argumentative sentences, and to what extend topic modeling can be used to clas...

Leptospira has been a major public health concern in New Caledonia for decades. However, few multidisciplinary studies addressing the zoonotic pattern of this disease were conducted so far. Here, pig, deer and dog samples were collected. Analyses were performed using molecular detection and genotyping. Serological analyses were also performed for dogs. Our results suggest that deer are a reserv...